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BetaShares rejigs oil ETF...again

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2020
BetaShares' ETF that tracks crude oil futures is once again changing the length of contracts it tracks and is taking extra measures to automatically convert the ETF to all cash if oil futures drop significantly again. The BetaShares Crude Oil Index ...

Sydney boutique winds up fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
Redpoint Investment Management has wound up its industrials fund but will continue to offer it as the much-bigger model portfolio. The boutique decided to shutter its industrials fund (and equivalent mFund), saying it has not been able to grow the funds ...

Westpac discovers additional transaction irregularities

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... counter-terrorism laws late last year at the bank, some relating to child sex abuses in South-East Asia. The breaches saw heads roll at Westpac, including that of its former chief executive Brian Hartzer and chair Lindsay Maxsted. In early June, Westpac ...

Macquarie tops mandate league tables

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
Local institutional investors handed out $43.5 billion of funds management mandates in the year to March end and Macquarie had the most wins, latest league tables from Rainmaker show. Superannuation funds, investment managers (via sub-advisory relationships) ...

Rio Tinto decision exposes limits of super engagement

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... said. "Rio Tinto's leadership has demonstrated zero accountability for their vandalism of Juukan Gorge and continues to roll from crisis to crisis. Investors should be circling in on those responsible for this litany of poor decision making." AustralianSuper ...

Chief economist update: A tale of two quarters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way..." -- 'A Tale of Two Cities' ...

Super reform should happen, but not now: Grattan

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... the crisis would be the biggest waste of all." Currently the government's JobKeeper and JobSeeker scheme are scheduled to roll off towards the end of September. Daley said some emergency measures enacted to respond to COVID-19 should stay for the long ...

AMP approved product list under fire

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2020
... send a cheque due to the fees being taken from the tax advantage environment of their super fund. AMP has 92,000 Eligible Roll-over Fund accounts with an average balance of $11,000, De Ferrari said, but could not confirm how many of those accounts were ...

Chief economist update: Extraordinarily uncertain outlook

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2020
US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell has painted an optimistic picture of developments in the US economy while at the same time warning of extraordinary uncertainty. "As the economy reopens, incoming data are beginning to reflect a resumption of economic ...

Vanguard launches SMSF functionality

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
Vanguard has launched a self-managed super fund capability within its Personal Investor offering. Through Vanguard Personal Investor, SMSFs will be able to trade the top ASX shares by market capitalisation at $19.95 or 0.15% per trade (whichever amount ...